"Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook," by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco, $26.99, Tuesday) Penetrating and unapologetic are words that describe Anthony Bourdain, the chef-turned-author-turned-TV-host. The star of "No Reservations" returns with an inside look at the people who prepare our food, like Justo Thomas, the man who cleans 700 pounds of fish a day at Le Bernardin. Tony invites the fish gutter to break bread with him at the famed seafood restaurant.

"Oil: Money, Politics and Power in the 21st Century" by Tom Bower (Grand Central, $26.99, just published) An "investigative historian," Tom Bower takes readers by the hand and leads them into the world of greed and extreme risk that is the trillion-dollar oil business.

"Galveston," by Nic Pizzolatto (Scribner, $25, June 15) "A doctor took pictures of my lungs. They were full of snow flurries." So begins the hard-boiled noir by young writer Nic Pizzolatto, who makes the Gulf Coast city both the setting and a character in his debut novel.

"Imperial Bedrooms," by Brett Easton Ellis (Knopf, $24.95, June 18) Where were you when "Less Than Zero" hit with all the subtlety of a drug-binge hangover? Brett Easton Ellis follows those members of the lost generation of the '80s into even more desperate middle age in his brutal sequel "Imperial Bedrooms."

"The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World," by David Kirkpatrick (Simon & Schuster, $26, Tuesday) With 500 million members worldwide, who isn't on Facebook? Former Fortune senior editor David Kirkpatrick explores the world Mark Zuckerberg created in "The Facebook Effect."

"Spies of the Balkans," by Alan Furst (Random House, $26, June 15) Alan Furst writes good old-fashioned, shadowy espionage fiction in which everyone is out to get everyone and no one can be trusted. He follows up the best-selling, critically acclaimed "The Spies of Warsaw" with "Spies of the Balkans," set in northern Greece and Macedonia during the early days of World War II.

"The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella," by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Book for Young Readers, $13.99, just published) Just the thought of another Meyer novel has Twilighters panting. Clocking in at 192 pages, "Bree Tanner" is the highly anticipated story of the "newborn vampire" character introduced in "Eclipse."

"Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century," by Michael Hiltzik (Free Press, $30, just published) More than railroads, oil and gold, water — and the pursuit of this precious commodity — built the American West. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the story of one of the key stepping stones in the "American Century" — the building of the Hoover dam — in "Colossus."

"Beautiful MarÌa of My Soul," by Oscar Hijuelos (Hyperion, $25.99, just published) Oscar Hijuelos gave us the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" 20 years ago. Here he returns to a key song in that book, "Beautiful MarÌa of My Soul," telling the story of the girl in the title.

"Frankenstein: Lost Souls," by Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27, June 15) If you just can't get enough horrific death by way of vampires, zombies and werewolves, try the latest in best-selling author Dean Koontz's "Frankenstein" series, "Lost Souls." In a small Montana town, "intruders" invade homes and businesses, assuming the identities of those they've been engineered to replace.

"Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century," by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger (Harper, $27.99, June 15) There's a reason "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" was so realistic. Liz and Dick's life was frequently a domestic war zone, thanks in large part to his drinking, but hey, it made for great makeup sex. Sam Kashner, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and Nancy Schoenberger, director of the creative writing program at William and Mary College, take the pulse of the "Marriage of the Century" in the aptly titled "Furious Love."